Pocket-book.



PATENTED AUG. 16, 1904. H. BRUHGER.

POCKET BOOK. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 7, 1904.

WITNESSES:

. UNITED STATES Patented August 16, 1904.

PATENT ()EEICE.

. POCKET-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 767,793, dated August 16, 1904. Application filed March 7, 1904. Serial No. 196,930. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, HERMAN BRUEG a citizen of the United States, residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pocket-Books, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pocket books, porte-monnaies, and the like.

The object of my invention is to provide for applying and securing the tab, usually called the tuck, to the flap of a pocket-book Without the usual stitching and give a neater and more satisfactory finish to the connected parts.

The particular features of construction constituting my invention will be set forth in the claims. 7

I will now describe the details of construction by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a pocket-book, showing the tuck applied to one of the flaps. Fig. 2 represents an inner face view, on enlarged scale, of a flap and tuck. Fig. 3 represents a vertical section of the same. Fig. 4: represents an inner face view of the parts in the course of construction.

The pocket-book A may be of the usual compound construction; with one of its covers or the back B provided with an interior pocket and having a flap C for closing the same. The tuck D has usually been made separate and secured by one or more transverse lines of stitches near its middle portion to the flap C; but this stitching is inconvenient and an objectionable expense. I have therefore devised a method and means for making the:

filling 0. To the paper or other interior filling'c in the tuck D is applied a reinforcing tip or covering of muslin it. The leather cover is then applied to the filling of the tuck, and at the rear end or thumb-piece (Z thereof the edges (Zof the leather are turned over and glued onto the filling of paper or paper and muslin, and then athin lining gis glued or cemented on the inner face of the part cl of the tuck to give it a suitable finish. The tuck D is now glued at its forward half to the tongue portion 0 of the flap, and the free edges d", Fig. 4c, are .turned over and glued to the inner face of the tongue, as shown in Fig. 2. Before turning the edges cl of the tuck over and securing them by glue or other adhesive on the tongue 0 a strip of muslin or other fabric It is preferably passed over the filling e of the tuck and then turned over, crossed, and glued on the filling c at the junction of the tuck and flap, as shown in Fig. 2. Evidently the strip of strengthening material it may be glued to the inner face of the leather cover and turned over with the edges d and glued to the tongue 0. The different layers of material are shown of exaggerated thickness in Fig. 3 for the sake of clearness of illustration.

My invention is not confined to all of the details of construction above described, and the construction may be modified without departing from my invention. If heavy leather is used, some of the filling material and the muslin tip may be omitted, and the particular kind of material used may be greatly varied. The-edges of leather which are turned over upon the filling are usuallyshaved thin, so as to give a neat finish. The tuck is inserted in the usual slitm or under a strap on the pocket for holding the flap in place.

The tuck D, applied as above described, is durably secured to the flap without stitching, is effective in use, and neat in appearance.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a pocket-book, or the like, a fiap having a lining or interior portion provided with a tongue, and a tuck having a rearwardly-extending thumb-piece, the forward portion of said tuck being secured by an adhesive to said tongue, substantially as described.

2. In a pocket-book, or the like, a flap having a projecting tongue and a tuck applied at its front portion to said tongue, with its edge turned over and secured by an adhesive thereto, and having a rearwardly-projecting thumbpiece above the flap,substantially as described.

3. In a pocket-book, a flap havingatongue and a tuck having the edges of its front por- 

